It was the last evening of their wonderful holiday at the beautiful Greek island. Both were reluctant to go home and get on with their normal lives, this was just paradise. Of course, they’d still have plenty of weeks together when they got home, but it wouldn’t be like this. They loved the peace this place offered when they needed it, they loved how you could find the ambiance and friendly people everywhere at the same time.

The sun was setting and they had decided that they wanted to see this from the beach. They were standing there, watching how the sun was slowly gliding towards the water, as if the latter attracted it with pure love and wanted to cover it to protect it from the world.

Bette had her arms wrapped around Tina, her head resting on her shoulder. Earlier in their relationship, it would have been evident that Tina held Bette – Tina being the older but particularly the most confident one. This vacation, where of course many guys (and some girls) tried to hit on either of them, had done their relationship good. They had seen how easily they rejected anyone else and how there were no jealous or insecure feelings. They seemed to have found their long-deserved peace.

Bette buried her nose in Tina’s blonde locks and smiled to herself. “I really love you,” she mumbled in her girlfriend’s ear. “You know that?”

Tina averted her gaze from the amazing sight and turned her head slightly. She looked up at Bette, her hazel eyes filled with love and devotion. She smiled a little, took Bette’s folded hands that were resting on her navel and kissed them both. “I do know that.”

Tina tucked a revolting curl behind Bette’s ear and cupped her lover’s cheek. “Can you believe that we celebrated our one-year anniversary earlier this week? It feels like yesterday when I talked to you after graduation. I thought I would die – I was so scared that you’d reject me and I’d be totally embarrassed and hurt and lonely.”

“Of course I didn’t reject you, Tee… How could I? I was so convinced that you knew it, so many times. That you read it in my eyes, in my actions, that you heard it in my words or that you saw it in the way I had to talk to you.”